RAF Tornado lands in Malta
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RAF Tornado makes emergency landing in Malta - timesofmalta.com
RAF Tornado makes emergency landing in Malta - timesofmalta.com
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How about that, even aircraft that fly from carriers (henceforth to be known as 'the answer to everything') have had to land away from those wonderful steel floating runways that free one from the burden of needing a land-based runway.
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Apparently it was a bit windy for them. I thought 'the answer to everything' could just move away from wind? Perhaps the French aren't doing it properly.......
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Apparently it was a bit windy for them. I thought 'the answer to everything' could just move away from wind? Perhaps the French aren't doing it properly.......
Just as well that the Tornado has at least got the range and reserves to fly an operational sortie and still be able to make sensible emergency diversions, rather than just crash landing onto a randomly passing container ship:
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I make a valid comment....did I ever mention once the C word?....hmmmmm? Cmon?........Hmmmmm? I tell you....you crabs are paranoid, you have to drag every conversation back to the C&H words I was looking for an intelligent conversation about the fact that even though the Med is 'in the back yard' one can still not guarantee access to the airfields.................humpfh!!
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As Malta had close ties and support pre war from Libya, maybe they do not want to upset anyone for future relations.
Extract from the newspaper Malta Today
Malta’s foreign minister Tonio Borg has issued a stark warning to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) stressing that if they intend to engage in any military action against Libya using Malta as a base, they should “go and knock on other people’s doors.”
Ironically, this comes in the wake of reports that NATO aircraft have been in close communication with Maltese authorities, and the day after the US ambassador to NATO confirmed Malta’s role as base for ‘the larger international co-ordinating process’ for operations which also involve NATO,
Speaking to MaltaToday from Rome after meetings with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini, Malta’s foreign minister said that he made it clear to all NATO member states, that Malta will not allow its neutrality to be breached and its Constitution broken.
Malta’s foreign minister Tonio Borg has issued a stark warning to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) stressing that if they intend to engage in any military action against Libya using Malta as a base, they should “go and knock on other people’s doors.”
Ironically, this comes in the wake of reports that NATO aircraft have been in close communication with Maltese authorities, and the day after the US ambassador to NATO confirmed Malta’s role as base for ‘the larger international co-ordinating process’ for operations which also involve NATO,
Speaking to MaltaToday from Rome after meetings with his Italian counterpart Franco Frattini, Malta’s foreign minister said that he made it clear to all NATO member states, that Malta will not allow its neutrality to be breached and its Constitution broken.
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Will the crew be interned for the duration or will they use the Uruguayan precedent and require that airframe to be withdrawn from operations?
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Will the crew be interned for the duration or will they use the Uruguayan precedent and require that airframe to be withdrawn from operations?
if they intend to engage in any military action against Libya using Malta as a base, they should “go and knock on other people’s doors.”